"A gallery of the world's most vicious criminals." Listed as an
"ACE Double-Size Book."

Story of the Marine battles in the Pacific from
Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima.

Original
painting for the cover of CORAL AND BRASS:
The inside story of the Marine battles in the Pacific from
Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima.

GENERAL HOLLAND M. SMITH was the wartime commander of
the United States Marine Corps in the Central Pacific. The book is
dated with a 1949 copyright date but the ACE edition was actually
published in 1958. The art is painted on a 22" x 30" thick piece of
SUPERIOR illustration board. Actual size of image is 19.25" x 23". The
rest of the board is painted a flat yellow which matchs the background
color of the painting. The artist blocked off the image area with
masking tape. Close-up
image of characters.

Note that Holroyd (2003) has this listed as a PBO, but my
references give an earlier publication date (that may be for a
hardbound edition). 26 April 2011: More data - yes, looks like this
is the 1st ACE printing but still trying to track down the c. 1954
volume.

A novel of the War in Africa against Rommel. Gordon Lansborough
also wrote a series of Western novels under the name of Mike M'Cracken
and was the editor of the British Sci-Fi magazine Authentic
Science Fiction.

"The never before told story of the small band of men
who paved the way for the WWll invasions."

This is listed as the "Complete novel from the movie
featuring Boris Karloff." Movie photograph of Boris Karloff on back
cover. The cover art for The Haunted Strangler was 'borrowed'
by Panther for its printing of TOM OWEN Circus of Horrors
(Panther 1041; 1960, 2nd). This story was also released under the
title The Grip of the Strangler.

A novel of intrigue and suspense surrounding the East German
underground.

Original cover art
for D-389. Gouache on board. Image size is 17" x 12". Artist is
unknown. Note that on this cover art, the image of the man and woman
has been "squared off" with black tape and they have used the
photographer's register tape along the outer borders of the image.

MAYSIE COUCHER GREIG SMITH (1901-1971) was a prolific
Australian-born writer of numerous romance and romance/thriller
novels. She was married to Delano Ames (1906-1987) who was a writer
of detective fiction (he divorced her in 1937 and remarried). The
1951 edition of Overseas Nurse (under the title After
Tomorrow) was published by Bouregy & Curl, Inc. (New York)
in hardcover. There is additional biographic information on her
available at this URL.

EROLIE PEARL GADDIS DERN (1895-1966) also wrote under the names
of Peggy Dern and Peggy Gaddis.

Original cover art
painted by Rudy Nappi for D-539. Gouache on illustration board,
Signed lower left. The full image size is approximately 18.75 x
11.75 with the overall (unframed) size being 23 x 16. The image area
was "squared off" on the board in production with 3/4 inch black
tape (partially shown in the first photo). However, the image area
shown in the first photo is slightly more than what appears on the
paperback cover. As was common, part of the image was cropped by the
publisher when it was transferred to the cover. Close-up
image of characters.

HARRY BENJAMIN WHITTINGTON Harry (1915-1989) was a native
Floridian and a prolific writer. Besides writing over 150 novels in
mystery, western, and the romance genres, he also wrote screenplays,
television scripts, and short stories. A collection of Whittington's
manuscripts can be found at Florida State University, Tallahassee,
FL.

Original cover
art by Rudy Nappi for Hollywood Nurse. Tempera and
gouache on board. Image area 22" x 18" (board 26.5" x 18"). Note
that the area
bounded by the tape is for the ACE cover, but Rudy Nappi had
an entire theme worked out for this art, with the black siloulette
of the film cameras, lights and boom mike setup. Verso
has title ("Hollywood Nurse"), Rudy Nappi's name as artist, and
letter-number series.

D-553 WILLIAM HOPE
HODGSON The House on the Borderland (1962; listed as "complete
and unabridged")

This story, listed also in the science fiction section, is fantasy
and horror and strangeness.